Staffers for Delaware Democratic governor Jack Markell claim they don’t know how or why a tweet about his new education initiative featured a photograph of a yellow-haired woman wearing nothing but black leather straps associated with certain sexual subcultures:

The governor’s office released a statement acknowledging that “[d]uring this morning’s event, a tweet was composed with a link to what was supposed to be a picture that had just been uploaded to the internet of the Governor’s education announcement. While the tweet was being edited, the auto-generated link for the picture was inadvertently altered.”

“As a result,” it continued, “the picture linked to the tweet was a random, unrelated, and inappropriate picture that has been on the internet since 2010, and not the just-uploaded picture of the event. The tweet was deleted and we apologize for the error. The lessons here are not to compose tweets too quickly and there is a lot of odd stuff on the internet. We just wish the accidental link had been a cat video.”

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